Globalization and the Gulf / edited by John W. Fox, Nada Mourtada-Sabbah and Mohammed Al Mutawa.

1. The Arab Gulf region : traditionalism globalized or globalization traditionalized? / John W. Fox, Nada Mourtada-Sabbah and Mohammad Al-Mutawa -- 2. The concept of security in a globalizing world / Steve Smith -- 3. Globalization at the beginnings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Roger Owen -- 4. Globalization as economic phenomenon : a critical interpretation / Tim Niblock -- 5. The trends in globalization critiqued / Ismail Sirageldin -- 6. How likely is democracy in the Gulf? / Khaldoun Al Naqeeb -- 7. An argument for enhancing Arab identity within globalization / Gaber Asfour -- 8. The Gulf engulfed : confronting globalization American-style / Michael C. Hudson -- 9. Saudi Arabia's role in the global economy / Rodney Wilson -- 10. The impact of globalization on Arab Gulf states / Abdulkhaleq Abdulla -- 11. An overview of international relations from the Arabian Gulf / Fred Halliday -- 12. Foreign matter : the place of strangers in Gulf society / Paul Dresch -- 13. Ambivalent anxieties of the South Asian - Gulf Arab labor exchange / John Willoughby -- 14. The evolution of the Gulf city type, oil, and globalization / Sulayman Khalaf -- 15. Heritage revivalism in Sharjah / John W. Fox, Nada Mourtada-Sabbah and Mohammed Al-Mutawa.